German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to visit China from Thursday to Friday, and experts said that when common interests are being threatened, China and Germany should move to effectively overcome US protectionism and unilateralism.

Wang Yincheng, former president of the People's Insurance Company (Group) of China Limited (PICC), was sentenced to 11 years in prison Thursday for accepting bribes of over 8.7 million yuan (1.36 million US dollars).

A Los Angeles university gynecologist who allegedly targeted Asian students for sexual abuse has prompted an outpouring of concern on Chinese social media about the security and safety of US campuses and American society in general.

The first eight of 35 planned BeiDou-3 satellites have already formed a simple functioning orbital network with a global positioning accuracy of 5 meters, a spokesman for the State-owned third-generation satellite company said at a conference in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Wednesday.

A subsidiary of the Japanese household goods, apparel and food company Ryohin Keikaku Co was fined 200,000 yuan ($31,000) by a Shanghai bureau for not checking imported packaging that listed the island of Taiwan as a country, according to media reports on Wednesday.

China has successfully experimented with its space program's inflatable reentry and descent technology (IRDT), a technology that can allow China to land heavier spacecraft on celestial bodies with thin atmosphere, including the moon and Mars, specialists said.